The physician accused of making an attempt to push his spouse off a scenic Hawaiian cliff and bashing her head with a rock when she refused to take a photograph with him has now been charged with tried homicide.
Gerhardt Konig, a 46-year-old anesthesiologist, was arrested on Monday hours after the vicious assault on his 36-year-old spouse, Arielle Konig, on the Pali Lookout, a well-known panoramic vista on Oahu, in keeping with Honolulu police.
Konig was charged Wednesday with second-degree tried homicide and his bail was set at $5 million, prosecutors mentioned. He’s scheduled to seem in court docket on Thursday, KITV reported.
“Why did he do that? That’s a thriller,” Konig’s lawyer, Myles Breiner, informed the outlet.
“He has nothing on his document right here or wherever else he’s ever lived in,” the lawyer mentioned.
“So it’s relatively stunning that out of nowhere, he would interact in this type of habits.”
The physician allegedly freaked out his nuclear engineer spouse when she refused to take an image with him whereas mountaineering alongside the favored Pali Puka mountaineering path to the lookout, which provides gorgeous views of the Oahu shoreline.
He tried to push her off the path, then punched his spouse and hit her with the rock — and in some unspecified time in the future, even tried to jab her with two syringes, in keeping with Hawaii Information Now.
Arielle Konig was rushed to a hospital in essential situation with a number of facial and head accidents after the alleged assault early Monday, in keeping with the Honolulu Police Division.
Her physician husband was arrested later that night close to Pali Freeway after a quick foot pursuit, cops mentioned.
Konig, who was employed by an impartial contractor to offer medical providers as an anesthesiologist in Maui, has been suspended, Maui Well being mentioned in a press release on Monday.
